the retention bonuses were put in place at the beginning of 2008, before AIG received any bail-out money.

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But if, at any point, I get to a place in the list where the thing I'm looking for is smaller than the element in the list, I know everything else in the rest of the list has to be bigger than that, I don't have to bother looking anymore.

比当前位置数组的元素要小,我也就知道后面的数肯定,也都比我的目标数要大了，我就不用再继续进行下去了,这意味着目标数不在这个数组中，我就可以退出了。

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And similarly, actually, if we're looking at our polar coordinates here, what we see is it's any place where theta is equal to is what's going to put up on the x-y plane.

类似的，如果我们,看这里的极坐标系，我们能看到只要在theta等于,多少的地方就是ｘｙ平面。

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